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and other American or peat soil shrubs. Novelties arc constantly being 

 added to the collection. Large quantities of hybrids and species are 

 annually raised from seed, and the named kinds propagated by grafting. 



We would add that the tirm has secured the lease of a field to the west 

 of the Inverleith Nursery, with a view to meet the increasing demand of 

 the forest tree business. 



Messrs. Methven and Sons have recently published a catalogue of seedling 

 and transplanted forest trees, Conifera3, ornamental trees, ko... in which the 

 most important novelties as well as all the old favourites are well represented. 



DICKSONS AND CO. 



The Nurseries of this firm, which have been long well known throughout 

 the country, are situated in various parts of the suljurbs, and cover an area 

 of some 80 to 100 acres, in which are to be found almost every variety of 

 forest trees, fruit trees, ornamental trees, shrubs, rhododendrons, besides 

 Alpine, herbaceous, and hothouse plants, &c. The general offices of the 

 lirm are at 1, AVaterloo Place ; and perhaps their most important 

 nursery is at Pilrig Park, Pilrig Street, close to Bonnington Toll-bar. 

 This land has ouly been in use as a nursery for about two years, and 

 was acquired in consequence of the Messrs. Dicksons having to give up the 

 old and famed nursery in Leitli Walk, of which they had been in possession 

 for upwards of a century and a quarter ; and although no doubt the firm 

 were loth to leave their old quarters, yet the manifest improvement in 

 all the plants since they have migrated from the smoky atmosphere of The 

 AYalk must be substantial consolation to them. The advantage of having 

 a nursery laid out on one homogeneous plan, instead of growing piece 

 by piece, with constant alterations and additions, as the majority of 

 nurseries do, is here very apparent in the good order and systematic arrange- 

 ments which are everywhere noticeable. In this nursery are the principal 

 hothouses ; and much attention is also devoted to house plants, ornamental 

 trees and shrubs, bedding violas, and pansies, as well as forest and fruit 

 trees, &c. 



Redbraes Nursery, which is in close proximity to Pilrig Park, is de- 

 voted principally to ornamental trees and shrubs, vines, fruit trees, rhodo- 

 dendrons, and other plants for game coverts. 



At LoGiE Green we find a good and varied collection of forest trees 

 and fruit trees, all in beautiful health. 



Bonnington Farm is devoted exclusively to forest trees, all lookiug 

 strong and healthy. 



Quarry Holes is another nursery given up entirely to rearing forest 

 trees. 



And lastly, Libbrton, where fruit trees of almost every species receive 

 special attention, and make robust and well-matured growth. 



PETER S. ROBERTSON AND CO. 

 In the Nurseries of this firm, which cover an area of some fifty acres, 

 in the vicinity of the city at Trinity, Inverleith Mains, and Stanley 



